Wednesday, September 29, 2010

A Deeelicious Story

I was doing some Spring-Cleaning to my antique photo album which had fungal print marks on every page. I stumbled upon this silly shot which I snapped when I finished high school.

I was the youngest and holidayed with this group of young executives who eventually became my BFF till today. I am forever grateful to them for paying all my expenses before I graduated to start my career.

That year in the 90s, I followed them to Pulau Tioman by boat from Mersing. All except me were scuba divers who had dived in almost every exotic marine beds from Mauritius, Great Barrier Reefs and Cebu up to Jeju Islands. Goodness, I could never afford to dive like them!

I love this photo taken from their backs. The centre torso in yellow cap is my Princess of Arabia! We have come a long way as friends and she fussed on me like a terror kid brother! I call her Abby and she used to work for Bristol Myers Squibb in KL after her decades of nursing stint in United Kingdom. In the gang, there was another beezee lady, Helen who hardly had time to catch up after leaving her famous purchasing post at Metrojaya.

Abby was most well known for her loud laughters, sweet tooths and world class stuffed Christmas Turkeys besides all the pastries, cakes and yummy desserts! The KBS drama featuring the chef Kim Tak-Gu reminds me of Abby who has the natural flair to toss, cook and bake! I used to lick my dinner plates dry.

They all rarely communicated as I lived away in Penang before leaving for States. Abby who used to attend the Bristol Myer's AGM yearly at Indiana in US had made an effort to visit me in Pennsylvania one summer. We had planned to tour Philadelphia and NYC as I could be her tour guide but her time was tight, so we called off.

So, I took her around Pittsburgh to see the beautiful European designed buildings of Heinz Hall and Carnegie Music Hall where the movie "Flashdance - What A Feeling" was filmed. She loved my rented condo in the swanky Shadyside haven for yuppies which had glass roofs to view the falling snow in Winter. I guess I was a bad son, living like a prince and even visited Trump's casinos in Atantic City as a student. Ssssshh!

Here, we took the train up to Mount Washington to view the skyline of Pittsburgh.

Next, we chilled at the giant fountain which sits by the the tip of the famous 3 rivers - Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio Rivers. Bruce Willis often made his movies here and considered Pittsburgh as Hollywood Of The East. Before I returned to Malaysia, Abby had been promoted and transferred to Hong Kong to head the aggressive marketing division.

One thing led to another, Helen went on to open her chain of oversized dresses!

Next, she teamed up with Abby and Deeeeelicious was born!

I truly salute their hard work and sweat for everything today where Abby still heads the factory's huge kitchen now.

I have patronized several outlets and prefer the one at Dua Residences as it was a memorable noisy birthday dinner by a Sri Garden's student. They made so much noise in the private room till all diners threatened to throw us out. Later on, some bloggers also left a stained dispute on that wall. LOL!

Abby highly recommended me her sweet Mud Chocolate which could give me an instant diabetic on the 2nd helping. Believe me, I love the food menu but the bill hurts my pocket TERRIBLY. I would love to hear your sweet bitter dining experience too @ Delicious. Abby does not know I blog, no worries yet laaar....